Stillwater: New owner of Maple Island building plans a restaurant

If all goes as Frank Fabio has planned, a new restaurant will open in downtown Stillwater this spring.

Fabio, who lives in Grant, is the new owner/developer of the Maple Island Hardware building at 227 N. Main St.

He's hoping a restaurateur will lease the 3,700 square feet that formerly housed Maple Island Hardware and, before that, part of the Maple Island Creamery. The space will include a back patio overlooking the St. Croix River, he said.

If nothing works out, Fabio said he is prepared to open a restaurant himself.

"But I really don't like nights and weekends," Fabio said Tuesday, Nov. 20. "I've got twins on the way."

His wife, Sally Fabio, is expecting to give birth any day now, he said.